Law Firm Broich

Concept

At a time in which large corporate law firms are focused on increasing the number of lawyers at their disposal to headcounts of upwards of 3,000, we offer an alternative for clients who expect more than the routine handling of transactions from their legal counsel.

We specialize in projects that require the intensive support, extensive experience and special expertise of our partners. Personal advice on legal matters or regarding questions requiring absolute trust and discretion as to what is right or wrong equates to tangible economic value for our clients.

We earn our clients’ trust through integrity, experience and respect, not by size, international presence or frequent media appearances.

This is our philosophy and this is what we stand for.

Integrity

Although legal work has fundamentally changed and become internationalized, we are convinced that retaining the traditional values of German attorneyship is an indispensable prerequisite for our clients’ trust. First and foremost this means strict confidentiality.

We do not use the names of our clients for advertising purposes, report transactions for league tables or report to the usual legal gazettes. We also do not publish transaction lists or participate in beauty contests. We are happy to accept that these principles often lead to a false assessment of our market position.

Our second principle is unfailing loyalty. We do not let our clients down however difficult the situation and refuse to resign our brief or change sides on the basis of purely strategic or economic considerations.

Irrespective of legal conflicts of interest, we do not act contrary to the economic interests of our clients. Accordingly, we refrain from representing the direct competitors of our clients in order to protect our clients’ trade secrets. We do not believe in Chinese walls and therefore never represent more than one bidder at a time in M&A or private equity transactions.

Experience

We are proud that lawyers from our firm have been involved at the forefront of transactions and legal proceedings over the past years and decades which have shaped and changed both German Stock Corporation law and Germany’s economy.

Members of our firm were prominently involved in the largest hostile takeovers in German history and the first ever contested takeovers on German soil.

Partners of our firm assisted in setting up Germany’s biggest energy supplier and were involved in the financing of what was at that time the largest ever German Private-Equity transaction. They have restructured and privatized state participations and prepared them for public offering. Our lawyers helped in the drafting of Germany’s first arranged insolvency plan procedure and were the first ever to securitize claims for compensation under German Stock Corporation law.

Respect

Our opinion commands respect / our word holds weight. In both the academic community and in our daily practice. In our professional dealings with colleagues, banks, courts and authorities. In committees, boards and professional associations which our lawyers are members of. We have earned this respect – not through publicity, but rather on merit.

Not by seeking visibility but through the consistent quality and creativity of our solutions reaching back over many years. Not through our size, but through our exacting standards and the caliber of our clients.

Our Expertise

Our Attorneys

Josef Broich, Partner

Cross-Border M&A and German Corporate Law

Josef Broich has gained substantial expertise in all forms of crossborder restructurings, M&A and in German corporate law, in particular regarding mergers, transformations, spin-offs and split-ups.He has advised several German and international blue chip clients in connection with their acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings in Europe, Asia und in the US.

He advises management boards and supervisory boards, particularly regarding modern Corporate Governance, board compensation and regarding critical German shareholders’ meetings.Furthermore, he advises international institutional investors regarding their investments in European public companies as well as in the area of distressed assets.

Ferdinand von Rom, Partner

Cross-Border M&A and German Corporate Law

Ferdinand von Rom focuses on international M&A transactions and tender offers as well as on German corporate law. He has gained substantial expertise in these areas, in particular regarding mergers, transformations and domination and profit and loss transfer agreements and cross-border M&A.

Ferdinand von Rom also advises German and international institutional investors in connection with the acquisition of real estate portfolios and contested public transactions in Germany and German and in international blue chip clients in connection with their acquisitions and disposals in Germany.

Dr. Albert W. Adametz LL.M.

Strategic and Corporate Law Advice, Cross-Border M&A and Corporate Finance

Albert W. Adametz advises Austrian and international clients in the areas of corporate law (including corporate governance and takeoverlaw), M&A and on corporate finance matters. He draws from substantial multi-jurisdictional experience in these areas and has represented numerous clients in some of the more challenging cross-border transactions over the last years.He represents clients in crisis and frequently private equity clients in Europe and the US.

Dr. Olaf Gierke

M&A and German Corporate Law

Olaf Gierke focuses an M&A transactions and represents public and private companies on corporate law mandates. He has gained substantial expertise in these areas, in particular regarding mergers, spin-offs and squeeze outs. He has advised several clients in connection with their acquisitions and disposals in Germany.

Wolfgang Sturm LL.M. oec.

Corporate Law, Banking and Capital Markets Law, Corporate Litigation.

Wolfgang Sturm advises German and international clients in the areas of corporate law (including stock corporation and corporate group law), banking and capital markets law as well as in complex restructurings.

He has gained substantial expertise in advising and representing management and supervisory board members and managing directors in respect of compliance with duties and corporate governance. He regularly serves international financial investors in connection with their investments in German companies and in distressed assets.

Wolfgang Sturm advised corporate groups, companies and shareholders in matters regarding takeovers and subsequent integration as well as in other corporate transactions.

Steffen M. Stohrer

M&A and Corporate Law

Steffen M. Stohrer concentrates on advising investors and corporate clients in the area of M&A and matters of corporate law.

He has gained fundamental expertise in acquisitions and real estate transactions as well as in the legal structuring of companies and corporate groups.

He has advised international investors in connection with acquisitions in the hotel industry as well as with commercial and residential real estate investments. Amongst others he was engaged in the acquisition process of several hotels in Europe and the set-up of a telecommunication company in Germany.